﻿PARTRIDGE. 79* 



ANDALUSIAN 



/^ E N E R A L colour an elegant rufous ; the feathers irregu- Frontispiece.. 

 larly marked and barred with black: fides of the neck Description. 

 fpotted with the laft: the under parts, from the chin to the vent, 

 pale rufous white, with a yellow tinge on the fore part of the 

 neck and breaft : the quills dufky : the bill and legs are fleflx- 

 eoloured ; the laft has only three toes, all placed forwards. 



This inhabits Jndalufia *. Place. 



La Caille de Madagafcar, Brif. ern. i. p. 252. 16. pi. 24. f. 2. — B:tf. olf. ii. 39- 



p. 479 .-P/.W.i 7 i. NEctS'Qv 



O I Z E of our Ghtail : length fix inches and a half. Bill cine- Description* 



reous : the upper parts of the head, and fides of it and the 

 neck, white and black, with a mixture of rufous : the upper parts 

 of the neck and body are variegated with afh-coloured, rufous, and 

 black j the laft in ftreaks, and in fome parts broader, forming 

 fpots : wing coverts irregularly mixed, rufous and afh-colourj 

 befides which are fome irregular fpots of yellowifn white, moft of 

 them accompanied with a ftreak of black : fcapulars partly the 

 fame, except there is a whitifh ftreak on fome of the feathers 1 

 chin and fore part of the neck black, ending in a point on the 

 breaft : the breaft itfelf, fides of the body, belly, thighs, and vent, 

 cinereous : fides of the breaft rufous : under tail coverts ftriped 

 with black: quills brown j the three or four outer ones edged 



* Mr. Pennant. Moll likely the fame bird with the Three-tced Shiail of 



Shaw, which he fays is a bird of paffage, and is caught by running it down ; 

 for having been fprung once or twice, it becomes fo fatigued as to be overtaken 

 and knocked down with a flick. — Trav. p. 300. 



with 



